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World Service,20 Apr 2019,53 mins

Waitress star Katharine McPhee

The Arts Hour

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Actress and singer Katharine McPhee, star of the musical Waitress on Broadway and now in London’s West End, talks about the musical’s all female creative team, her complex heroine Jenna and trying to avoid inhaling flour whilst singing on stage! Film critic and commentator Anton Bitel discusses the hottest topics in arts and culture. After the fire that destroyed the spire and roof of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, film-maker and journalist Marie Dominique-Montel talks about the place Notre-Dame has in the arts. With Game of Thrones back for its final season, actor Kit Harington tells us how it feels to stop playing his character Jon Snow and what has made him burst in to tears. The Chilean film-maker Sebastián Lelio discusses the English remake of his own film Gloria, which is now called Gloria Bell and stars Julianne Moore. And music from Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela. (Photo: Katharine McPhee as Jenna in Waitress. Credit: Johan Persson)

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